Kanye West and open source

Once again, I am late this work this morning, arriving office at 8 am. I have, though, excuse this time as I need to drop off New Heart's main man Yenn to the New Heart office. On the top of that, I, well, made a mistake when I exited from freeway. I made a left turn too soon, probably because I was thinking about how someone and something irritated me, or because I was listening to the Kanye West's new album Graduation, or that I was still impressed by the fact that an open source firmware RockBox turned my old iRiver iHP-140 MP3 player into a whole new beast.

Anyway, I made a wrong turn, and it took me 15 minutes to get back to the right road. Same old me, same old way of easy to lost my way.

I have to admit that my mind is still in awe about RockBox. The fact that I can play FLAC audio file on my iRiver, the fact that it supports text viewing with bookmark and honoring line break and the fact that it supports Unicode text display .... And I know that this is probably just tip of the iceberg, as I saw a lot of game screen shot, saw menu about bookmarking on songs .... With all these feature, this little old MP3 player now is even more feature rich that the iPod Classical 80Gb I was planned to buy.

Simply awesome the old source movement, and my highest salute to all who made this possible.